Humiliated, Isolated , Branded Thick and Lazy . . . Motor Racing Legend Jackie Stewart Understands Why Dyslexics Need Help
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'IF you gave me GBP20 million right now, " says Sir Jackie Stewart, "I couldn't recite the alphabet." He is not kidding. He is as unable to reel off the 26 letters from A-Z as I am to read the Koran in Arabic. "And, " he adds, "I don't know the words of the Lord's Prayer and I don't know the words of the National Anthem. Yet I'll give you every gear change and braking distance for the 187 corners of the old Nurburgring. That I've got in here." He taps his head. "And it's banked."
We are talking in his home in the Chiltern Hundreds, an unblemished corner of English countryside. Chequers, the Prime Minister's retreat, is nearby and over the hill resides the actor David Jason. Stewart lives in some splendour, looked after by an entourage that includes a butler, a cook, a gardener, a secretary and a chauffeur. On one wall is Sir Edwin Landseer's portrait of Sir Walter Scott, on others seductive examples of the Scottish colourists: Cadell, Peploe, Fergusson. Perhaps more importantly, though, there are mementoes from his racing days and portraits of family and friends, some of whom, such as Jim Clark, George Harrison and King Hussain of Jordan, are much mourned.See the full content of this document
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Humiliated, Isolated , Branded Thick and Lazy . . . Motor Racing Legend Jackie Stewart Understands Why Dyslexics Need Help
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Stewart dominated motor- racing as Michael Schumacher has done over the last decade.
In 1973, at the aforementioned Nurburgring, he won his 27th grand prix, a record which stood for 14 years until it was eclipsed by Alain Prost. He was thrice world champion, in 1969, 1971, and 1973, when he was voted BBC Sports Personality Of The Year. After he retired from racing, he developed the Jackie Stewart Shooting School...See the full content of this document
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